A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2Bowles and Dearborn, 1826 |
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... evil . Then will be required a special rein- forcement of constant and sound indoctrinating to set them right and firm , instructing them more amply in the knowledge of virtue and the hatred of vice , while their young and pliant ...
... evil . Then will be required a special rein- forcement of constant and sound indoctrinating to set them right and firm , instructing them more amply in the knowledge of virtue and the hatred of vice , while their young and pliant ...
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... evil . The knowledge cannot defile , nor consequently the books , if the will and conscience be not defiled . For books are as meats and viands are ; some of good , some of evil substance ; and yet God , in that unapocryphal vision ...
... evil . The knowledge cannot defile , nor consequently the books , if the will and conscience be not defiled . For books are as meats and viands are ; some of good , some of evil substance ; and yet God , in that unapocryphal vision ...
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... evil . Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest con- coction ; but herein the difference is of bad books , that they , to a discreet and judicious reader , serve in many respects to discover , to confute , to ...
... evil . Bad meats will scarce breed good nourishment in the healthiest con- coction ; but herein the difference is of bad books , that they , to a discreet and judicious reader , serve in many respects to discover , to confute , to ...
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... evil , as two twins cleaving together , leaped forth into the world . And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil , that is to say , of knowing good by evil . As therefore the state of man now is , what ...
... evil , as two twins cleaving together , leaped forth into the world . And perhaps this is that doom which Adam fell into of knowing good and evil , that is to say , of knowing good by evil . As therefore the state of man now is , what ...
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... evil , and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers , and rejects it , is but a blank virtue , not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental white- ness , which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spenser ...
... evil , and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers , and rejects it , is but a blank virtue , not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental white- ness , which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spenser ...
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Page 57 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 33 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 21 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 343 - Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
Page 342 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Page 281 - If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Page 34 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tracts, and hearing all manner of reason...
Page vi - The Tenure Of Kings And Magistrates: Proving, That it is Lawful!, and hath been held so through all Ages, for any, who have the Power, to call to account a Tyrant, or wicked King, and after due conviction, to depose, and put him to death; if the ordinary Magistrate have neglected, or deny'd to doe it.
Page 61 - Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions ; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. Under these fantastic terrors of sect and schism we wrong the earnest and zealous thirst after knowledge and understanding which God hath stirred up in this city.
Page 58 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.